First Tier: Beyonce, Beiber, Gaga, Perry, or Swift.
Second Tier: 1D, JT, and Miley
Third Tier: Rhianna, Britney, Selena, Carrie, and the flavor of the day musician.
(Note we run out of major stars very quickly)
Fourth Tier: Thousands of good musicians outside corporate music - often as good or better.

Music and the music business, has been reduced to 5. These 5 get more media attention than all the other musicians in the world, combined. Corporate music has marginalize the best of the rest into footnotes. It has been decreed by the suits that you will not have any real career in music unless you are Beyonce, Beiber, Gaga, Perry, or Swift. (and maybe runnerups 1D, JT, and Miley).

Hunkasuarus = One standard guitar, one voice, and one revolution.

Never in history have 5 musicians got more press than all the rest. Never in history has the music business been mostly 3 companies (Universal, Warners, Sony). Never in history has the major media companies owned the music companies too. Now that's music news every media should be covering!